About UsAt Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world's largest networks that powers approximately 25 million Internet properties, for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine's Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World's Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!About The PositionWe're looking for eager tech-minded interns to join the Legal Team for roughly 2-3 months over the summer of 2022. This is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to experience life as an in-house lawyer at an innovative, fast-paced tech company. This internship will be much more akin to a "real world" in-house role, in which you'll be given as much responsibility as you can handle, and you'll need to be proactive about requesting guidance and support from your supervising attorneys in performing your role. You must be serious about managing your time and trying to get the most that you can out of this short experience.Interested candidates should possess strong analytical, writing, and communications skills, and have an interest in the intersection of law and technology. Legal coursework (including legal research and writing), and academic or practical experience in a legal environment (corporate legal department, law firm, or technology focused nonprofit) is strongly preferred.Responsibilities: Assist the Legal Team with all matters faced by the company. This includes an enormous array of issues ranging from commercial contracts, building business practices, data rights and privacy, to immigration and litigation. Conduct legal research on a variety of legal topics including: intellectual property, data protection and international regulation. Respond to various legal requests from our users, customers, and third parties in relation to Cloudflare services. Participate in the maintenance of internal knowledge databases for the legal team. Review and provide input on documentation and agreements. Requirements: Strong academic performance in law school. Completion of 1st or 2nd year of law school. Excellent legal research and writing skills. Detail oriented, strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills. Self-starter with the ability to learn in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision. Letter of Recommendation from a law school professor or graduate school instructor a plus. Knowledge of computer software, networks, and Internet policy. Experience in negotiation, litigation, and compliance. Comfortable presenting to and interacting with C-suite executives. What Makes Cloudflare Special?We're not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We're a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.Project Galileo : We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare's enterprise customers--at no cost. Athenian Project : We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.Path Forward Partnership : Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.1.1.1.1 : We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here's the deal - we don't store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.Sound like something you'd like to be a part of? We'd love to hear from you!This position may require access to information protected under US export control laws, including the US Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these US export laws without sponsorship for an export license.Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person's, perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment. If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.